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Scale By Avec says strategic hiring is the key in the age of AI

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Scale By Avec urges firms to rethink hiring in AI era, backing training, human skills and entry-level pathways over headcount cuts.
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Xero expands developer tools with new webhook events

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Xero rolls out credit notes webhooks and new API pricing for app partners as it tightens permissions, recertification and developer access.
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Aerospike launches LangGraph memory layer for AI agents

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Aerospike adds durable memory for LangGraph agents to keep context through restarts, failures and concurrent sessions.
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Meta AI agent exposes sensitive data in internal leak

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Meta says an internal AI agent's bad guidance exposed sensitive staff and user data to workers company-wide for hours, sparking security alarm.
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Cycloid adds versioning for service catalogue stacks

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Cycloid adds Stack Versioning to its service catalogue, letting platform teams test infrastructure changes without forcing immediate upgrades on users.
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UiPath Accelerates AI in Software Development and Testing

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UiPath is pushing AI deeper into software testing, promising autonomous agents that transform quality assurance and developers' roles.
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GitLab widens AI access & sets flat review pricing

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GitLab opens agentic AI to free-tier users, sets USD $0.25 flat fee for automated code reviews and expands security false-positive filtering.
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Google AI Studio gets full-stack coding agent Antigravity

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Google has launched Antigravity, a full-stack coding agent in AI Studio that turns text prompts into collaborative, production-ready web apps.
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OpenAI unveils GPT-5.4 mini & nano for faster coding

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OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 mini and nano, smaller AI models promising faster, cheaper coding help and near-flagship performance on key benchmarks.
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OpenAI monitors internal coding agents for risky conduct

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OpenAI unveils a GPT-5.4-powered system that audits its own coding agents for rule-bending behaviour, flagging suspicious sessions to humans.
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OpenAI buys Astral to bolster Codex developer tools

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OpenAI is buying Python tooling specialist Astral to fold its uv, Ruff and ty projects into Codex and deepen ties to developers.
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Persistent appoints Hari Abhyankar to lead private equity

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Persistent hires Hari Abhyankar as EVP and global head of private equity, sharpening its push into investor and professional services markets.
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Datadog's $1bn investment in unifying data silos

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Datadog pours USD $1 billion into AI-driven tools to unify data silos, automate incident response and fuse security with observability.
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HCLTech wins Ethisphere ethics accolade for third year

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HCLTech has been named one of Ethisphere's 2026 World's Most Ethical Companies, securing the ethics accolade for a third consecutive year.
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Miggo & Grafana link runtime security with telemetry

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Miggo and Grafana link runtime security to Grafana Cloud telemetry, promising major cuts to critical vulnerability noise for joint users.
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R Systems launches EXIQO to scale agentic AI in firms

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R Systems has unveiled EXIQO, an AI Studio to help enterprises scale governed agentic AI across engineering, operations and legacy systems.
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Appdome unveils DefenceOS for unified mobile app defence

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Appdome launches DefenceOS, an in-app execution layer to unify mobile security defences and curb SDK conflicts slowing iOS and Android apps.
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Harness unveils AI Security & coding tools for DevSecOps

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Harness has launched AI Security and Secure AI Coding tools to spot and block vulnerabilities in AI-powered apps and AI-generated code.
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Kore.ai unveils platform to tackle enterprise AI sprawl

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Kore.ai has launched an Agent Management Platform to give enterprises a unified control layer over fast-growing, fragmented AI agent estates.
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Secure Code Warrior unveils AI tool to govern code risk

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Secure Code Warrior launches SCW Trust Agent: AI to trace, rate and police AI-generated code risks directly at developers' commit point.